Montessori Physical Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

One of the most notable changes is the differentiation between the game's middle school and upper elementary school versions. First, the middle school game also has an extra level of competition where one team is directly playing against another.

Middle School

SHAPE America

JULY 27, 2023

As a principal, I certainly do as well. And, despite clear research demonstrating the positive impacts of health and wellness on academic achievement , schools may be tempted to put critically important physical activity programs on the back burner. Several years ago, our school experienced an increase in discipline.

Wellness

Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 27, 2022

A school nurse was asked by a parent at her elementary school’s open house if she was trained to respond to COVID, Monkeypox, and an active shooter. I am skilled in infection control measures and have taught school staff over the past three school years what we can do to keep ourselves and our students safe.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

JANUARY 28, 2023

My last blog was a call for stories to share from school nurses across the country. I was excited to hear from Meg Jenkins, a New Hampshire school nurse and incoming Director to the NASN Board. This is Meg’s reflection on her school nursing journey to become NCSN – Nationally Certified School Nurse.

Schooling

Human Kinetics

JUNE 5, 2023

Physical activity is one important foundation for our children’s mental and physical health and requires a commitment across the school day, in transport to and from school, and in school/community partnerships. Promoting Elementary School Physical Activity is a key resource that will help make that commitment happen.

Elementary School

Relentless School Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The story of the third grader at Parkside Elementary School highlights the critical role that school nurses play in ensuring the well-being of students. T he timely intervention of the school’s licensed nurse, Rachel Ocampo, proved to be life-saving for Kassie Machado’s daughter, Mia.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here is an extended trailer of the film: Find out where to view this documentary, but better yet, bring it to your organizations, your schools, your communities across the country. The program won four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Critics Choice awards, as well as a dozen other industry recognitions.

Schooling

SHAPE America

JUNE 2, 2022

My dad was a soccer player in high school and helped found a rec league in our community in East Hampton, CT, which my brother and I both played in. When I started middle school, there was no girls soccer team, and it didn’t occur to me that I wouldn’t be allowed to try out for the boys team — so I did. They really couldn’t say no.

High School

SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. Why Fishing? Many have never fished before at all.

Recreation

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

That same month, tennis pro Steven Mingo came to my school. In May 2022, I applied for my school to play exhibition matches for NetGen at the U.S. Bicycle Grants The CYCLE Kids grant (valued at $25,000) provides schools with 10 new bikes, helmets, a bike pump, and textbooks that teach cycle basics as well as nutrition.

Physical Education

Slow Chat PE

JUNE 2, 2023

In this pursuit, introspection becomes a powerful tool to examine our beliefs and behaviors, and how well they align with each other. Notably, we observe positive shifts in areas such as elementary school fitness testing, the reconsideration of dodgeball, and the adoption of skills-based health education.

Schooling

Heartzones

MARCH 25, 2024

.” ~ Bennett Ranch Elementary School (BRES) Administrator What was your first experience with Physical Education technology? Bennett Ranch Elementary generously was loaned the Heart Zones’ sensors during the 2019/20 school year. Also, the sensors are durable and hold up well to active students.

Elementary

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In most conversations about improving schools, the role of physical education is an afterthought, or worse, not even mentioned. By dedicating physical education (PE) and physical activity (PA) as one of the ten components of the Whole School Model, a new emphasis on physical health opens the door to how we look at PE and PA in schools.

Physical Education

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Schools have a lot to cover and only so much time. Authors Note: In recent years, the larger educational community has explored if any subject should be required, especially at the high school level. ” The old school term “gym class” usually elicits images of rolling out the balls and playing dodgeball.

Physical Education

PLT4M

AUGUST 22, 2023

The health benefits of physical education schools are well documented. After exploring the current state of student health and wellness, we outline and review the short and long-term health benefits of physical education in schools. Only 26% of high school-aged students attend PE classes 5 days a week.

Physical Education

Stanford Childrens

AUGUST 23, 2023

Illness and hospitalization can lead to a loss of school days and education for children, and it can create social and learning challenges due to prolonged or intermittent absences from school. In our metaverse classrooms, there’s no such thing as a standard school day,” says Collins. “VR

Schooling

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Filling up an entire semester of middle school physical education units can be challenging. But there are plenty of fun and engaging middle school physical education units to choose from. The Need For Variety With Middle School Physical Units Middle school physical education is unique! Let’s explore.

Middle School

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

High school is an essential time for students to develop their social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. From group activities to individual reflection, a variety of SEL activities can be used in the high school classroom. This article will explore 10 SEL activities for high school students. Social Emotional Learning wheel.

High School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

A teacher from the Queen Creek Unified School District was given an honorable mention in the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards. Lara Cox, a K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School, will be honored at the Arizona Teacher of the Year Awards ceremony on Oct.

Teacher

Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For elementary school teachers, intervention might be something that is done weekly and can be handled with your eyes closed. However, with middle school and high school teachers, station groups with a teacher table are not necessarily common. Once stations are in place, they are a well-oiled machine.

Teacher

Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The kids at Irene Lopez Elementary School had a ball on Thursday, and students at over 600 other schools throughout Arizona will soon follow suit thanks to a new partnership between the Arizona Coyotes and Equality Health. That’s what they want to do in health and wellness, and that’s what we do as an organization.”

Elementary School

Stanford Childrens

MAY 8, 2024

Dr. Sen and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health follow the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendation to screen children for autism at their well visits before age 2. With all the appropriate therapies and the parents fully engaged, a lot of my patients start elementary school at the same level as their peers.

Elementary School

The PE Specialist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With this post I want to cover one of the most common questions I hear teachers discussing which is… How do you handle grades in Elementary PE Class? Well, it can definitely get super complicated, but I have a pretty simple system that I use to keep my sanity and […] What’s up Phys Ed Fam?

Phys Ed

Stanford Childrens

APRIL 8, 2024

Here at Stanford, we have instituted a checklist at every well-child visit starting from birth. With all the appropriate therapies and the parents fully engaged, a lot of my patients start elementary school at the same level as their peers. And by their late elementary school years, they do not have the diagnosis anymore.

Elementary School

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Therefore, schools must embrace the connection between physical activity and academic performance for students to reach their highest potential. In 2010, the CDC released an 84-page report titled “The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance.”

Academics

Gopher Sport

JULY 10, 2024

Finally, our school district holds an annual 5th Grade Track and Field event at each of the four high schools for all 19 elementary schools. The previous two years, I have designed the onsite Field Day around “Traveling the World,” since my school is an International Studies school.

Elementary School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The funding will positively impact more than 220,000 students across 73 cities and towns statewide, with 368 different schools receiving grant awards. This season’s 500 granted wishes will fulfill requests from teachers in the areas of agricultural studies, arts, math, physical education and wellness, science and special needs.

Teacher

Montessori Physical Education

MAY 14, 2023

The decades-long journey started in the humble beginnings of a small Montessori school in the basement of a church in the Rogers Park area of Chicago. After observing the fantastic benefits of the Montessori philosophy on her own son, she would continue that legacy as a teacher at the school. Her coworkers adored her as well.

Elementary School

Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In elementary school, Juliana was diagnosed with a learning disorder, which she had to work hard to overcome. It wasn’t until high school that she felt fully mentally and physically caught up. Isabella is following a similar health care career path and is in school to become a physician’s assistant.

Elementary School

Whole Child Sports

MARCH 26, 2020

In January, Tom Farrey—who heads up the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society program—and his editorial director Jon Solomon, sent me deep into New Jersey Youthsportszanilandia, to profile a girls’ High School basketball program. This is dreadful news for the tens of thousands of high school athletes who tear their ACL each year.

Wellness

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

I know that to many of you we (APE teachers) breeze in and out of your schools and classes, spend 30 minutes or so with certain students, then we take off to another school. Well, that is just part of the story. Well, in Arizona and 35 other states, the requirements are the same as those for teaching general physical education.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As physical educators, I am sure you all understand the importance of physical activity as well, but many of our classroom teachers withhold physical activity, recess and physical education as a form of discipline. So how can we educate our classroom teachers on how important time in physical education is for their students’ well-being?

Physical Activity

Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Over the years I have heard many misconceptions about how a student qualifies for adapted physical education as well as what the actual purpose of adapted physical education is. When students transition from elementary school to secondary, their services may change, depending on what is offered in each school.

Physical Education

FACTS Management

MAY 18, 2023

From elementary schools to college campuses, today’s students need education leaders who are invested in their emotional safety. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly 20% of high school students report serious thoughts of suicide and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives.

Health

AASP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This increased focus on performance has many athletes and parents choosing to forego multi-sport participation to focus on a single, main sport as early as elementary school. </p> parents, athletes, siblings) as well as their relationships. .</p> parents, athletes, siblings) as well as their relationships.

Sports

PLT4M

JULY 15, 2022

When every school across the country went remote in March of 2020, there was a collective spirit around the benefits of physical activity for students. We did so, because we knew that exercise’s mental and physical benefits were essential for students’ well-being while living through a pandemic. That was 15 years ago.

Physical Activity

Human Kinetics

MARCH 22, 2021

The curricula that accompany the Dynamic Physical Education textbooks will be discussed as well as the foundational skills necessary to implement them effectively in schools. . . Presentation Material. All content within this presentation, including accompanying handouts, is the copyrighted work of the author unless otherwise noted.

Physical Education